It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.